According to the country's prosecutor general, 34,000 war crimes have been committed in the country since Russia invaded in February.
Emergency workers dig into the grave of a civilian in Izium.
The town of Izium, where 458 bodies were found in mass graves in March, is one of the cases that is being prioritized by the Ukrainian government.
According to Oksana Markarov, the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S., there is evidence of war crimes of massive proportions in Izium.
The office of the prosecutor general in Ukraine has opened a genocide case against Russia and is in contact with the International Criminal Court.
Last month, officials said they were investigating about 26,000 suspected war crimes, with 15 suspects in Ukrainian custody and 135 people charged to date.
There has been a lot of war crimes committed by the Russians. The place is turned into a new Bucha whenever the Russian army arrives.
In May, the first Russian soldier to be convicted of war crimes in Ukraine was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was sentenced to 15 years by an appeals court. A number of Russian soldiers have been sentenced.
Izium was taken back by the Ukrainians as part of a successful counteroffensive. The bodies of more than 400 people were found in mass graves in Izium this week. The massacre in the city could be worse than the one in Bucha, where officials and reporters have uncovered evidence of torture, rape and executions. The leaders called for an investigation into Russia's military. Two weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, the International Criminal Court launched an investigation into possible war crimes that may have been committed in the country. While honoring the Russian military unit accused of carrying out the killings in Bucha, President Putin denied the allegations of war crimes.
It is not clear whether Russian leaders will be held accountable if they are charged with war crimes. The investigation by the International Criminal Court is expected to take a long time and it has only indicted a few individuals. Even if Putin is indicted on war crimes charges, the court can't arrest him alone. It relies on its 123 members to make arrests. The country's legal system could be challenged by the high volume of war crimes cases that could still be prosecuted.
A mass burial site has been found in the territory reclaimed from Russia.
The war crimes of huge proportions are described by the ambassador.
The transcript is from the September 18, 2022, edition of "Face the Nation".
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